their thin _ti-ti_ or see their
golden-crown. In proportion to its size, this diminutive species lays a
larger number of eggs than any other of our birds, as many as 9 or 10
white, brown-marked eggs being laid in their pensile, mossy nest in the
latter part of May.

RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET

_Regulus calendula calendula. Case 4. Figs. 70, 71; Case 5. Figs. 36,
37_

A white eye-ring; two whitish wing-bars, no white
in the tail; adult male with a ruby crown-patch;
absent in females and young. L. 4-1/2.

_Range._ Nests chiefly north of the United States;
winters from Virginia and Iowa southward.

Washington, abundant T.V., Apl. 12-May 15; Sept.
25-Nov. 1; occasionally winters. Ossining, common
T.V., Apl. 8-May 13; Sept. 16-Nov. 3. Cambridge,
rather common T.V., Apl. 12-May 5; Oct. 10-30. N.
Ohio, common T.V., Apl, 1-May 23; Sept. 9-Nov. 3.
Glen Ellyn, fairly common T.V., Mch. 22-May 19;
Sept. 9-Oct. 27. SE. Minn., Mch. 12-; Sept.
18-Oct. 24.

A tiny, olive-green bird, with a large white eye-ring, fluttering
actively among the yellowing leaves, uttering from time to time a
wren-like _cack_ as he twitches his wings and showing little or no fear
of man can be only the Ruby-crown, southward bound. He returns before
the trees are clad, as the author of a song as marvelous in volume as it
is musical in tone; a whistled song of rare sweetness.

BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER

_Polioptila caerulea caerulea. Case 4. Fig. 69_

A slender, gray mite with a comparatively long
tail of which the central feathers are black, the
outer ones white. L. 4-1/2.

_Range._ Nests from the Gulf States to southern
Wisconsin and southern New Jersey; winters from
the Gulf States southward.

Washington, rather common S.R., Mch. 30-Nov. 23.
N. Ohio, common S.R., Apl. 20-Sept. 15. Glen
Ellyn, not common S.R., Apl. 22-Aug. 20; possibly
later. SE. Minn., rare S.R.

In color, form, proportions and voice, the Gnatcatcher may properly be
called 'dainty.' His slightly explosive call-note _tin-ng_, is louder
than his exquisitely finished, varied, miniature song. The nest is
almost as fine in workmanship as a Hummer's. The 4-5 white, thickly
speckled eggs, are laid in April and early May.

THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. FAMI